George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Today is a king in disguise.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.